Learning Vietnamese as a heritage language in Taiwan

Vietnamese Heritage Language: From Silence to Voice

“…Ben-Moshe et al ( 2016), Bui (2016), Gogolin et al (2017), Hegele (2014), Heller (2012), König (2014), Nguyen (2011), Pham (2015), Tran (2006Tran ( , 2013 Heritage language education and policy Lam (2006), Potter (2014), Tran (2008), Tran et al (2021b The Vietnamese heritage language proficiency assessment Maloof et al (2006), Nguyen et al (2001), Tran (2019 Characteristics of the Vietnamese heritage language Dao (2012Dao ( , 2016, Dao and Nguyen (2015), Ho-Dac (2003), Hoang (2013), Nguyen (2012), Phan (2017Phan ( , 2018, Thai (2007Thai ( , 2014, Tran (2013), Tran (2018Tran ( , 2019 on Vietnamese as a heritage language or an inherited language have also started to gain more attention (Yu-ching et al, 2015;Đỗ, 2023). This research trend bodes well for enriching our comprehension of this unique language and its role within diverse diaspora communities around the world.…”

Foregrounding Vietnamese Language, Education, and Change in and Outside Vietnam

“…By documenting and investigating multiple facets and processes of Vietnamese language education in global contexts, and by engaging with global Vietnam through the lenses of language and education, this volume breaks new ground and advances existing scholarship, which remains extremely limited and scattered (see for example, Do, 2015;Maloof et al, 2006;McLeod et al, 2019;Nguyen, 2020;Nguyen & Ha, 2021;Nguyen & Huynh, 2021;Nguyen et al, 2001;Phan, 2019;Phan et al, 2014;Tran, 2008Tran, , 2021Yeh et al, 2015). Specifically, the contributing chapters, in diverse manners and to varied extent, examine how Vietnamese is perceived, practiced, taught, learnt, institutionalized, kept, revised, politicized, personalized, and given meanings by multiple communities and actors across time, space, and contexts.…”

“…At the same time, the diverse vectors of human mobilities in and out of Vietnam since the colonial time induced by the many major historical events and encounters, and by internal and external forces and factors such as the nation-building project and the processes of globalization and internationalization as briefly indicated thus far (Amer, 1994;Dorais, 1998;Hoang, 2020;Nguyen, 2015a, b;Phan, 2022;Thompson, 1952) have resulted in the widespread yet nuanced use of and attitudes towards the Vietnamese language beyond the physical border of Vietnam (Do, 2015;Hue Binh, 2023;McLeod et al, 2019;Nikolaevich, 2021;Nguyen, 2022;Tran, 2008;Tran, 2022;Yeh et al, 2015). This very phenomenon is also central to the scholarly examination highlighted in this edited book.…”